Usama Al KhawajaUsama Al Khawaja obtained his Bachelor's degree in Physics from the University of Jordan in 1992 and Master's degree in Physics from the University of Jordan in 1996. He earned his PhD degree in theoretical Physics from the University of Copenhagen i 1999. He spent three years of postdoctoral research at Utrecht University in the Netherlands before joining the United Arab Emirates University in 2002 as an assistant professor. He is currently a full professor and Chairman of the Physics department at the United Arab Emirates University. His main areas of research are Bose-Einstein condensation, nonlinear and quantum optics, integrability and exact solutions. His main achievements in integrability and exact solutions include developing a systematic search method of finding Lax pairs of a given nonlinear partial differential equation. He also developed a convergent power series method for solving nonlinear differential equations. He has authored more than 70 papers and obtained one patent on applying discrete solitons in all-optical operations. Read More Read Less